tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69468581685935103202012-01-16T12:15:58.369+01:00.. and Santanas, and a bit about our Landy travels, and repairs, and the usual reallyroughseasinthemedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.comBlogger751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6946858168593510320.post-64570295692192213042011-12-26T20:40:00.002+01:002011-12-26T20:42:42.152+01:00

And the flip side - east to west. I don't think any text is necessary if you have read the previous post. Except to say head for Algeciras all the way and you can't go wrong. A nice peaceful start to the journey One of those adorable ruins 'para reformar'? Spanish love their bridges By-passing Málaga and looking towards Alhaurin Entrance to the tunnel Spectacular views on the other side

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The last time we set off down the N340/A7/goodness-knows-how-many-other-names-it-has, down to Gib, it looked as though the new by-pass around Málaga was finally open. Either way we missed it. And trotted happily off down the usual old city by-pass route (opened nearly 20 years ago in 1992) which is pretty quiet on a Sunday anyway. But coming back up from Gib a couple of weeks ago we decided

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We read recently on some Landy forums that people with Fairey winches have been unable to get the original documentation for them. So, if anyone is stuck, please leave a comment on here and we will try to help. We have info on the Fairey Series 5000 with mechanical power-take-off, fitting and operating instructions, and the Superwinch Series III Drum Winch kit 6920.Superwinch sent the

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Travelling on the N340 today and watching varying styles of driving, made me think it would be useful to compile one of those lists for how to drive elsewhere - in this case in Spain.1) The obvious one. Speed limits do not apply. Or if they do, they are the minimum speed for driving.2) When you are merging onto a dual carriageway or motorway, it is important to go as quickly as possible and push

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This is a travel post - maybe not in a Landy - but natch, there is a Landy link.Not long after we had embarked on our own travels through France, Spain and Portugal (in the Landy), we received a letter from a friend in the UK.Like us, he had a Series III 109 with a V8, so there was never a shortage of conversation. Might have been a shortage of different topics - but who needs more than one?He

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We had a query about importing a vehicle into Gibraltar so I thought I would answer it in a main post so everyone gets to see the answer. (Original post here).Here were the questions:What is the accurate duty fee to pay? Is it 30%, 40%, 12%?And how does it vary depending on engine size? How is the value determined and is it worth using an online evaluation of the plates to get an idea of how much

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Couldn't resist these two RN Landies parked outside John Mack Hall when there was a parade this weekend.And, when we went down to the dockyard to watch the 21gun salute for the accession to the throne of HMQEII, we checked out the Reynolds Boughton that is being done up very nicely.Had a query about importing into Gib, so that will be the next post.

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Here we are, not long before we set off on our travels. We'd done a total rebuild and she was pretty fit at this point. New chassis, new 1 ton springs, second hand bulkhead, second hand back body, ex-mil doors, a load of others I can't even remember. We'd even sorted the brakes. But first up, a few trial trips around the UK.More later.....

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As this blog is about travels and trips as well as mending Landies, I thought I would finish the series of glass-hunting posts with some - 'phone - photos of the trip taken on the return journey from Arcos.We've travelled up the beautiful Cadiz coastline before, up through Jerez, via Sevilla, and into the Cota Doñana, and we'd travelled inland around the Medina Sidonia area, but we'd never been

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Here is the much promised post about lessons learned and costs when replacing the glass/doors, based on our mistakes.Short and sweet:1) When you find a windscreen at the scrappy, take the frame as well. The glass is easy to get out of the frame of the donor vehicle, but it is a pain to put back in yours. And new windscreens are dear. As we know to our cost.2) Don't be in so much of a rush

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Last but not least, the windscreen.This was the one we really lacked confidence for. Anyways, usual story, knock out all broken glass. Remove window seal and get rid of rest of glass. Lubricate both faces of seal. Refit to glass. Start to insert glass and seal, slowly and carefully into frame.Fuck it up at last corner. Oh well, it was worth a try.Plan BUndo all bolts from roof and jack up

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Getting there. Front door windows next. We'd looked for some decent doors because ours need replacing, but had to settle for the windows only.Like the rest of the glass, they are windy up ones, not sliding, so sorting out the scissor-style winding mechanism was something to contend with for the first time.Remove door card. Then remove all broken glass (lots) from inside the door. Take out

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We found a lot of glass at a Málaga scrapyard. What we didn't find was glass for the middle doors, or even any decent replacement middle doors.But, after a drive up to the scrappy at Arcos de la Frontera, we found some middle doors, complete with glass. They were from an earlier model, but hey anything will do when you are struggling.It had taken us ages to find the scrappy. The directions we

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We hadn't been unlucky enough to have to do this one before. The hardest bit here was getting the small rubber back in - the equivalent of the one that covers the pop rivets on the side window.ProcedureKnock out as much broken glass as possible.Take out the small rubber from the centre of the big rubber.Remove big rubber from door and clean out all remaining glass.Lubricate the face (that fits

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Last year, some unpleasant person, or persons unknown, smashed the windows in our Santana. Not just one, but virtually all of them, including the windscreen.There is nowhere to source them in Gib, and the cost of getting new glass or doors shipped from the UK was prohibitive.If the intention was to put us off the road, then it wasn't a bad start.Still, with the help of friends, we managed to

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The photo says it all.

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And to complete the random photos ..Here is a brill exped vehicle. We were very impressed with the security plating over the rear windows. Totally different to the usual grilles but very effective and clever. Interesting roof conversion too, adds height, don't know whether it lifts, guessing not. We did leave a contact email on the windscreen of this one as we thought it was such a good and

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We haven't been entirely idle in our summer absence, so here for starters are some photos of random Land Rovers shot around Gib. Some are kitted out for expeditions with some interesting adaptations and good-looking gear.First up, an exped vehicle.Next an early county. Always fancied one of these when I was younger.Another well kitted out exped Landy. Nice awning, good sand ladders, safety

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It's always good to waste time, I mean travel around usefully, looking for scrapyards in Andalucía.So here, for anyone who wants to visit them, is a list of some of the ones we have visited in the search for Land Rover spares in the provincias of Málaga and Cadiz.So, first up Málaga province.A quick google and some queries on a very helpful Spanish forum - 4x4malaga revealed the main contenders

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This is an easy one.£20 for the test. Valid for two years. Only catch? This is for Gib residents and people with Gib businesses, ie registered in Gibraltar, only. So no, you can't bring your GB reg coche for an updated MOT when you have been living in Spain or anywhere else and out of the UK for longer than your MOT lasts. Nor can you buy some cheap Brit vehicle that has been kicking around on

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Thanks to Sean for the ride out, Tuggy and Erica for their hospitality, and everyone else for making Sunday such an enjoyable afternoon. A few photos ...... And good footage of the afternoon thanks to toyotaphil ...

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Slashed tyres are not good. Ever.So, off we went back to Spain to pick up some spares, and en route, a stop at Leroy Merlin for a nice attachment for the compressor to inflate tyres.22€ for the full kit. Better than legs falling off using the bicycle pump.

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And the good news is, the toll prices have gone down with the end of the summer holidays.Mountains on the way up at the rest area between Estepona and Marbella.It wasn't all cloud though - blue sky looking towards the coast.Dog.So new prices:Fuengirola - Marbella: €3.75Marbella - Estepona: €2.55(although I could have sworn on the way up it was €4.15 between Marbella and Fuengirola).Finally we

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Acquired from Freecycle.It wasn't working. It seemed like an electrical fault. First thing was to check the plug and the fuse.Someone had put a Spanish plug on it, so I disconnected that and put a three-pin plug on it. As the compressor is designed for live, neutral and earth it wouldn't work without the earth wire.Still didn't work, but at least it had current - it didn't before the plug was

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Seen in Gib over the last month or so.

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Nigel mentioned he had a problem with his Discovery (1). It's a V8. Sounded like the starter motor to Adrian, so off he went to take it out for him.It took some time when he first took ours out from the Series III many years ago, he didn't realise that it wasn't just two threaded bolts, but that they are allen head studs, so an allen key/socket is needed to remove them.But with that at the back

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Macharaviaya is a tiny village in a cul-de-sac. Or, to be more accurate, it is not far from anywhere, but stuck in the middle of nowhere, and there is only one road in and out (unless my maps and navigation misled me)It seems to have enjoyed good times in the 18th century when the influential Galvez family (who came from Macharaviaya) built a playing card factory there and sold the packs of

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Dipped headlights not working. Fuse? Bulb? – unlikely – not both of them.Stalk/switch?Emailed my favourite source of electrical advice and asked what else it could be.Relay, he suggested.We checked the fuses, all fourteen of them. Then we looked at the little black box stuck on the side of the fuseboard. A three pin plug, one of which was dirty.Santana fuse box - relay on the left - note

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Spotted in Morrisons carpark. A rather muddy Defender. We looked round and saw three other rather muddy vehicles. The group was returning to the UK after a three week trip to Morocco.

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Another toll road (peaje) post.First point, the prices went up on the first of June. Needless to state it was still quiet, with no arsey drivers. Some speeding but not the arsey types you get on the busy non-toll roads.So the price of the toll road to avoid San Pedro, which runs between Estepona and Marbella, has gone up from 2.55€ to 4.15€.Luckily we set off on 31st May so at least half of our

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Once upon a time I rather fancied a nice V8 Range Rover. It never happened.This weekend we went to look at one.It is a Range Rover Classic, year, 1991.Naturally it is a V8 – 3.9. It sounds wonderful. It has a good chassis and seems rust-free. It has a beautiful walnut dash and a somewhat bizarre small sport-style steering wheel to match. In terms of colour and interior it is slightly faded,

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Cruised up to the finca this weekend. Round trip is around 350kms.Here we are at Chilches. We usually stop here to let the dog out for a walk.For the first time ever we used a toll road in Spain for the section between Marbella and Estepona, to avoid San Pedro de Alcantara.Cost - two euros 55 cents (one way).Reason – roadworks that are apparently going to last for the next 18 months and are

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The Santana hasn't been to Tarifa before, although the Series III went there some years ago.So after visiting Parque Centennial outside Algeciras we headed off to Tarifa.Parque Centennial looking across the Bahia de Algeciras towards Gibraltar.Parked up opposite the beach at Tarifa.Costa de la Luz. Atlantic Ocean and beautiful beaches. Love it.MileageGibraltar to Tarifa via Parque Centennial and

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Travelling up the coast last weekend back to the finca, Adrian noticed the electrics seemed to be playing up.He couldn't tell whether the dashboard lights were coming on and couldn't see if the headlights were working in the tunnels.As the tunnels are pretty well lit, it's virtually impossible to tell whether your lights are working or not.Plus, the ammeter seemed to be swinging around a bit.

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Wednesday dawned. As do most Wednesdays. But this Wednesday was the start of our adventure.I'd gone round the house marking stuff for the removals people about what was to stay. They had an extensive typed schedule of what to move and we had sent them the keys.The theory had been that they actually came and packed stuff before we left but life doesn't work like that and they claimed double

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Some time ago one of our neighbours had her car kicked in. It was parked in a relatively safe place - or so we would all have thought - although not in a particularly busy (hence safe) or well-lit area.Months later we parked up from there, in a well-lit spot where people walked past.No problems for months - until.........one Saturday morning and a rear window was smashed.Not smashed in, just

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Before Christmas we managed to take a week's holiday so drove up to the finca.The last time we drove down to Gib, the engine cut out when we turned out of the lane into the main street.Once back in Gib, it didn't get forgotten about, rather put on the back burner as work took priority, and we rarely use the LR in the city.So driving up to the finca, all went well. A good journey. Leaving the

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Took a wander round the Ark Royal when it came into Gib as part of British Forces Open Day.It is huge. Or rather the aircraft hanger is huge as you would expect. The aircraft hanger was as much as we got to see, but there was some interesting stuff in there.Not least this. Being ignorant in all things military I had to ask one of my sources what it was. He told me it was an AWD tractor, used

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A selection of Land Rovers seen over the last few weeks.So first up, three LRs parked near to each other in one of the car parks. Two Discoverys, and a Defender SWB. Note the Maggiolina on one of the Discos which Partner is lusting after (the roof tent not the Disco - there are limits).In the background of the shot with the red Disco, is the British War Memorial.Lastly, what looks like the same

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Went for a walk this arvo, and set off down the street. Suddenly realised it would be more sensible to go uphill.Whereupon, I spotted this fine 109 ambulance. After chatting for a bit, I ran off down the street to get Adrian who needed to be alerted immediately to the presence of a Land Rover being fiddled on very nearby.1981, fitted with a 19J four cylinder turbo diesel, Kenlowe fan, and

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No posts because no Land Rovering for ages.But anyway she was looking a bit dirty and scruffy and abandoned so she got a wash down at the weekend and is now as beautiful as ever.

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Having very smugly written about the price of petrol/diesel back in March, when it was 54.9p a litre, I thought an update was in order.I am not quite so smug now. Just as well we don't drive much. At this rate it will soon be through the £1 barrier.Similar prices elsewhere, 89p (petrol) and 83p (diesel) at the BP garage.

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Today I decided to brave Spain and the long queues in Spanish banks and - to get the forms from the local traffic department to bajar the coche, ie take it off the Spanish system.Taking it off the system means we won't keep getting bills for Spanish road tax, and I might even get a refund for what's left of this year ie six months, 30€ or so. First I went off to pay the telefonica bill in the

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Spotted a few weeks ago down at one of the main car parks in Gib. A well-kitted out Defender.Looked like a nice outfit having a fine trip somewhere. Or coming back from a fine trip somewhere?And even we managed to get away for a few days in Spain at the Bank Holiday weekend.Parking up....And stopping for a break.....

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Isla Sancti PetriWe were getting sucked into staying at Tarifa. It's one of those places where time just passes. And suddenly you realise that a week or more has passed by and you have a slightly surreal existence.Make friends, they move on, new people come, make new friends. Fortunately some noisy young people arrived and determined to party on into the middle of the night so that was a

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Went shopping today and decided to fill up as the warning light was flashing.Cost for a tankful? £25. At 54.9p a litre.That's at least a couple of trips up and down to the finca and running around locally too.Big Gib smile. :)(Apologies for the smug post)And just in case anyone has forgotten - no road tax and MoT every two years.

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The alternator seemed to be a bit iffy.It didn't seem to be holding its charge.Bloody alternators cost a fortune in Spain. We know because when we arrived the one on the Series III started playing up.At the time we got it checked out at a local robo, I mean autoelectrical garage, but they gave us the sad news that we needed a new one and charged us hundreds of euros for it.As we needed it there

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*Trigger alert - a little Spanglish is needed for this one* When we imported the Santana into Gib the nice customs man reminded us to bajar the coche. I am struggling to translate this but basically it means to take it off the Spanish system.Anyway I looked some stuff up on the internet and it seems you have to fill out a form at a Spanish traffic office. Downloadable on the internet. No. I

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So this isn't totally Land Rover related, but we do stop and look at old trucks.And they are 4x4s.So here are a few pix.Seen today, a German truck with a winch and a half.And a nice little escape hatch in the roof. So cool.We saw a similar truck two or three years ago down the beach. The guy only stayed one night because he got hassle from the police.His truck was from East Germany and this one

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Adrian wasn't looking forward to cleaning out the air filter.He'd been promising to do it since before Christmas but it seems it was one of those dirty jobs he doesn't like doing.Lesson One Adrian. Have Land Rover - get dirty. Anyway, he finally promised that he really really would do it yesterday. And he did. He didn't even get very dirty.Step 1Unbolt from housing. The bolts were tight but

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I have a 4x4. In fact, I - or rather we - have two. A Land Rover Series III and a Santana.They are not for playing with nor have they ever been. We originally bought the Series III as a work vehicle, so it is not a very clever idea to go out on a Sunday and bust a diff or break a half shaft, when you need to take yourself and your tools to a job on Monday.But I appreciate that some people have

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Two weeks ago we set off for a drive into the hills. Down the river bed...and...er...well, we got no further. As you can see from the previous post.Anyway this weekend, we avoided that particular river bed and went across a proper one. Totally dry though. When the snows melt this is not just a rio, it is a rio and a half. Impassable. But there is no snow at the moment. And there is no agua,

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Off down the river bedAvoiding the deep rut on the driver's sideWhich was quite deep ie we would have been fuckedBut going into the ditch on the near sideWater, soft sand, unstable. Good oneAdrian having a quick look before he just drives out.Puts a bit of cane down. As if. Haha Maybe not drive out straightawayRear diff and rear nearside spring seem to be a bit stuck.No, we aren't going

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We began to panic about the heater plugs. They had not arrived. I sent an email to the UK supplier. I walked back outside onto the terrace.The postie had arrived and was yelling for us. Naturally the neighbours were yelling too. "Paquete, paquete," hollered half the street. Obviously a paquete was something rare and exciting.Yes! It was our box of heater plugs. We dashed inside with them.

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So we were sitting outside in the sun, as you do, just before lunch - enjoying the view and life in general.We both saw it at once coming up the street, and our heads moved slowly, simultaneously, to watch it slow down and draw to a halt next to the Santana.It was a Defender 90.The driver called to us in sort-of Spanish.Adrian took the easy route. "Habla inglés?"One of them did. It turned out

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Oh and while I'm on a roll, I thought it would be good to post up my admiration for those expert people, who help any struggling Land Rover owners (especially women who really don't do mechanics), out of the goodness of their heart.I have read a fair few posts about these occurrences and I really can't express how generous I think these people are, to give up their time, skill, expertise,

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Well, as I've said before, we read a lot of Land Rover forums. So I'm not going to say which one I'm talking about because it shouldn't reflect on the site or the mods/admin of the site concerned. And when I say, a lot of forums that is exactly what I mean.This is a rant about some of the tossers who use the sites. Actually it has now turned into a rant about one particular tosser. With an

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Robbin' bastardsSo here we are waiting patiently for our heater plugs to come out from the UK.In the meantime as we can do very little on the Santana, Adrian thought he would cycle into town and see what was on offer at the local auto-electrical garage which we have used a number of times before. Naturally - us being useless at auto-electrics, although these days slightly less than we were.He

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Back here I wrote about our Diesel Woes. And said that we would be checking through to see if we could find the source of the problem.We couldn't see any loose cables, so armed with our trusty new circuit tester with both a lamp and audible warning, we decided to go check the ballast resistor and then onto the heater plugs.The resistor on the Santana is in the dashboard, under a nice plastic

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This is not difficult. Step 1 Take your vehicle to the Customs Office (near the freight/commercial entrance to Gib), and ask for an assessment of the value. This varies depending on the condition of the vehicle, and the duty to import it varies depending on the size of the engine. More info on import duty regarding engine size, new/second-hand car on my later post here. Pay your money.

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It's a lot of years since we drove a car that had a "roadworthy" certificate. Back in Aus to be honest.So we were mildly entertained to discover that our new MoT certificate here in Gibraltar is also a roadworthiness certificate.We were impressed with the good service at the MoT station, the fast appointment, and the courteous and helpful attitude of the inspectors and office staff on the day.Now

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Like really?This is a Long Wheel Base ie 109", Five Door Station Wagon, 3500 diesel, Land Rover Santana. It does not, by any stretch of the imagination, go like shit off a stick. But it does pull up hills. Forever. It rarely goes into High/Low - or Largo/Corto - ratio because the traction is usually good enough anyway.Anyway, happily it passed its first MoT in Gibraltar. We have imported it

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When we first joined the internet, we signed up for lots of Land Rover forums. Or rather Adrian did.But the first one we signed up for was LRUK forums. It's the one we post on the most, and we have had some good advice from it. We also have tried to post back advice, when we can. On some of the others, people have offered to meet us. But not on LRUK, until recently.The forum is pretty

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What happens when you don't move your vehicle?It doesn't start. Naturally. Especially when it is a cantankerous 3.5 diesel.Anyway we got some great advice from LRUK so set about sorting the filter first and then bleeding the system.Old filterNew filterWhen we changed the filter, emptied and cleaned the sedimenter, the fuel was clean. Then we bled the system. Didn't work. Still wouldn't start.

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The amount of information about Santanas on the Internet is tiny compared to the info about Land Rovers.Having a vested interest in this, I thought I would start to write something based on everything I have found so far in Spanish and English - with links.In my reading about Santana I have found a lot of inconsistencies - so I am trying to put them all together. If I have mistranslated anything

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The good thing about living at the bottom of the Iberian peninsula is that there are always lots of people setting off for Africa.Sometimes they come into Gib, like this one. Duzi2, on her way to South Africa from England, with Ross and Heidi. She was parked in Main Street Gibraltar. We did hang around for a while, but no-one came back to the vehicle while we were there - and next time we went

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Tarifa. One of our favourite places in spite of the wind.The first time we arrived there was when we had done a Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco and Portugal trip. Three weeks backpacking for Adrian's 40th birthday.We arrived on his birthday, we were promptly offered some hash as we walked up the main street, and we missed the last bus to the campsite.But we met a fine South African called Nick. He

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When we first came to Spain we intended to chill out in a rented villa for a couple of months.As it was a total disaster we packed up and cleared off and went camping up the Andalucian coast, east of Malaga. We planned to follow the old N340 coast road all the way up as far as Murcia, as it was the only part of the Spanish Mediterranean coast that we had never properly explored. The first stop

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A few photos of the Series III enjoying life in the sun. On the beach Outside the house next door (because the street was being tarmaced) Outside our rustic house And sunbathing again (the beach is rustic too)

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Idle Adrian decided to drive down to the beach - rather than walking. I suppose because it was late morning and hot. So he got in - and discovered the starter motor was jammed. He did the usual stuff, whacked it kindly with a hammer, and put it into gear and rocked it backwards and forwards. No joy.He took it out. Pretty quickly. And then had a beer. It was Sunday so he couldn't do any

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I have no idea what sort of axles and diffs I have on my Land Rover Santana 3.5 diesel 6 cylinder Station Wagon (DL Super).They are not like any axles on any of the Land Rovers I have owned. They are not Rover, and they are not Salisbury. Could they be ENV? Both front and rear axles are very big and strong.Can anyone shed any light on them for me?Front axleFront axle Front axle Front axle

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And their Land Rovers. Actually our Land Rovers.So Eat Drink Breathe Sleep Talk SurfInternet Land Rovers Addicted Adrian decided to take off the roof yesterday and put on the hood sticks and the rag top.Cool idea, especially being in Spain.Well, yes, but we were meant to be going somewhere today. (No not shopping, that is his job too - not that he did much of it today.)So when the roof is out

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Here is a view of some local scenery.Adrian likes Land Rovers. Of any sort - if they are old.And the dog already has his own blog, so I am certainly not, and I mean not, maintaining a Landyblog - well not until today that was.So here is a Land Rover Santana Forward Control Series 2B which lives not far out the back of us. It is used on an aguacate finca (avocado farm) and it takes the aguacates

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Camping is fine in Spain. In winter the place is full of Northern Europeans in campervans/motorhomes. A lot of the coastal campsites are chocka, but many people prefer to wild camp by the beach.Partly for cost, but partly because it's nice.Summer is a pain because it is full of noisy families, and the staff on camp sites can't keep up to the cleaning fast enough.Anyway we splashed out on our

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"Hello, you speak English?""Yes, of course," said Adrian. "What do you want from me?" Somebody always wants something here. "I would like to buy one of these," he said, (referring to the vehicle). "This type of Land Rover.""Well, you can, it will cost you around 8,000€."And the woman said, "We can't afford that."So Unhelpful Adrian said that was the price they would have to pay for one that was

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